First Period, 1660-1682, "Documentary History of Suffield, by Sheldon, 1879"


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CONTENTS

PERIOD I.

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Preface 3
Outlines 5-45
Topography, 7: Indian Title, 9
Colonial and Town Lines
10-14
The Town Abandoned 14
The First Minister 15
First Marriages, Births and Deaths 16-17
The First Meeting House 17
Ministry Lands 18-20
Extracts from John Pynchon's Account Book 20-23
First Grants and Allotments, how made 23-25
Proprietors, Date of Grant, No. of Acres, Location of House Lots, when Deceased 25-28
Sketches of Proprietors 29-45
Grants, Petitions and Deeds for Suffield 46-52
First Grant, 1660, P. 46.  Act of Springfield Selectmen, 1660, P. 46. 
Petition of the Inhabitants of Springfield to the General Court, and the Answer, P. 47.  Land Set Apart, and Final Grant, P. 48. Boundaries, P. 49.  Mass. Proposes to Settle the Boundaries, P. 50.  John Pynchon's Deed, P. 51
 
Suffield Town Book of Records, for recording the Orders, Acts, Grants and Settlements of Suffield by the Committee from 1671 to 1682

53-78

Code of Laws or Rules for Ordering the New Plantation, Pp. 53-57.  First Grants to Settlers, P. 57.  General Divisions for Laying Out the Town, P. 58.  boundaries, Pp. 59, 65, 67.  Public Grants, P. 69.  Additional Rules, P. 61.  
Saw-Mill Grant, and payment for Lands 62
Highways to Feather St. and to the Saw-Mill 63
Feather St. Common Laid Out 64
Suffield, its Name, and Boundaries Established 65
Number of Families Increased to One Hundred 66
King Philip's War, and the Town Resettled 67
The Committee Receive 400 Acres 68
The Committee Relinquish it to Settlers 73-77
The Inhabitants to be Settled More Compactly 69
Highways, from High St. to Windsor, P. 70.  to the Old Mill, P. 71.  To Feather St., P. 71.  From High St. Westward over Muddy Brook, P. 71.  From the Upper End of High St. Westward, (toward Hastings Hill,) P. 76  
"Finis," as to the Acts of the Committee 78
 
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